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april_does_feral_sometimes 's review for:
Broken Angels
by Richard K. Morgan
In ‘Broken Angels’ radiation eats away at everyone’s bodies throughout the book as an ongoing planetary war also eats away at everyone’s souls. Any character with feelings of righteous belief ends up with the ashes of their belief lying at their feet. Betrayal is endemic throughout the plot. Darker than the first in the series, [b:Altered Carbon|40445|Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)|Richard K. Morgan|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387128955s/40445.jpg|2095852], I can see why some would stop here at number two in the Takeshi Kovacs series.
‘Altered Carbon’ was an exploration of the rot of sexual freedom into sexual decadence, and this novel is an exploration of the rot in moral faith that lies behind much political hatred and manipulation. True-believing leads to moral rot once you begin forcing everyone to your side. At least that seems to be the theme of book two. Plus it's apparently FAR bloodier when it's about political religion rather than sexual boredom!
Anyway there are more revelations about our hero as well as the Martians.
This reader is curious to see where Morgan takes us next. I'm feeling some dissonance though as to how an ex-envoy with a reengineered brain for warrior mentality and wolf-pack loyalty has somehow burst his neural chemical changes (chains) because of one particular death. Is that an authorial reveal? At the same time it's interesting how apparently if you burn out the usual human emotions and put in biotech to twist what's left of nerves and neurons you seem to get a human computer with a lot of mystical intuition and deep cynicism regarding motives of those in earnest self-sacrifice as well as the vicious self-serving. There is a lot to reflect on from reading this series. However the darkness and the polemic tone is a touch too much - my one complaint.
‘Altered Carbon’ was an exploration of the rot of sexual freedom into sexual decadence, and this novel is an exploration of the rot in moral faith that lies behind much political hatred and manipulation. True-believing leads to moral rot once you begin forcing everyone to your side. At least that seems to be the theme of book two. Plus it's apparently FAR bloodier when it's about political religion rather than sexual boredom!
Anyway there are more revelations about our hero as well as the Martians.
This reader is curious to see where Morgan takes us next. I'm feeling some dissonance though as to how an ex-envoy with a reengineered brain for warrior mentality and wolf-pack loyalty has somehow burst his neural chemical changes (chains) because of one particular death. Is that an authorial reveal? At the same time it's interesting how apparently if you burn out the usual human emotions and put in biotech to twist what's left of nerves and neurons you seem to get a human computer with a lot of mystical intuition and deep cynicism regarding motives of those in earnest self-sacrifice as well as the vicious self-serving. There is a lot to reflect on from reading this series. However the darkness and the polemic tone is a touch too much - my one complaint.